Smoking set.



J. M. ZWICKLE.

SMOKING SET.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. I5. 1914.

l l43, I 59.. Patented June 15, 1915.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

J. M. ZWICKLE.

SMOKING SET.

APPLlCATlON FILED OCT. l5, 1914.

LMS, 159.. Patented June 15, 1915.

2 SHEETShSHEET 2 STATES JOHN M. ZWICKLE, 0F ROANOKE, VIRGINIA.

SMOKING SET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

)Patented June 15, 1915.

Application filed October 15, 1914. Serial No. 866,802.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, JOHN M. ZWICKLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Roanoke, in the county of Roanoke and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Smoking Sets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to smoking sets and its object is to provide a neat, compact and safe receptacle for unlighted cigars, cigarettes, etc., and a container for matches. It embraces also an improved method of holding lighted cigars or the like and at the same time provides an ash remover and retainer that is cleanly and sanitary and may be readily cleaned. A humidor and a cigar-tip cutter are also provided.

lVith these and similar objects in view my invention consists of the peculiar formation and the combination of parts as will be. herein shown and claimed.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings wherein like parts are similarly designated, Figure l represents in perspective view the smokers set of my invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevational view, partly in section, of the same., and Fig. 3 an inverted plan view drawn to a reduced scale. Figs. l and 5 are perspective views of the removable cigar rest and ash remover.

The following description will explain the construction and use of the various elements shown, the device consisting of' an ornamental box or body portion 1 which may be of any desired shape, rectangular being shown in the drawings. This vbox is closed on the bottom and on the four sides, the top however being open. It is divided into three general compartments by means of the walls 2 and 3, the compartment 4 being intended for use as an ash receiver, the compartment 5 as a-container for unlighted cigars or cigarettes, and the space G being adapted to serve as a match holder. The dividing wall 2 I preferably make of asbestos or other insulating material so as to afford protection to the matches. In the present construction two metal walls are used and asbestos is packed between them.

In order to prevent fire from a lighted cigar getting into the unlighted cigar compartment or into the match compartment, the wall 2 is made to extend slightly rabove the sides of the box. An opening T is provided in the outer wall of the box to expose the striking strip on the side of a commercial box of matches, such a box of matches being shown in position in the match holder. I provide also an additional striking strip 8 on the front of the box which is made by roughening the metal of the box or by securing to it a piece of sand paper or similar material.

In the bottom of the compartment 5 I place a sponge 9 and innnediately over this a false bottom 10. This false bottom is provided with a plurality of holes and at the ends thereof the strip of metal forming this false bottom is bent down to form the legs l1. The sponge, 9 is preferably secured to the under side of this false bottom, the legs 1l thus serving to form spacers between the true bottom 1'.) and the false bottom 10, the sponge 9 occupying the space between. The false bottom l0 is made slightly smaller than the compartment 5 so that it may be readily lifted out, and the sponge with it, in order to moisten the latter. The compartment 5 equipped with this moist sponge becomes a humidor and cigars, etc., kept therein will be prevented from so rapidly drying out.

The compartment l, which serves as an ash receiver, is provided with a cigar tray 13 and an ash remover 11. The cigar tray is made of corrugated metal, the corrugations 15 running up and down the cigar tray, transversely of its length, which slopes from the top of the box at the front at 16 to a lower height near the center of the ash compartment at 17. By means of this inward declination the cigars will slide down a corrugation when laid on the same until stopped by striking the ash remover 14. and the possibility of a lighted cigar falling on the floor will be greatly lessened. At the lower edge at 17, the corrugated cigar tray abuts the upwardly inclined ash remover 11 which is made of Wire fabric or screen. This ash remover extends from the point 17, or slightly below this point, to the upper rear edge 19 of the box 1, the plane thereof forming approximately a right angle with the plane of the cigar tray. lVhen a cigar` is placed on the tray 13 the lighted end strikes the screen or ash remover 14 and the ashes are broken oti' and pass through the screen and into the ash receiver 4. Larger particles that i'ail to pass through the meshes of the screen will roll down the same and enter the, ash compartment 4 through the slot 20 which is provided in the cigar tray for the purpose.

The cigar tray 13 and the ash remover 14 are permanently fastened together by means of suitable bars or braces 23 and 93"* and the whole forms a separable unit from the box portion 1 and is adapted to iit snugly and tightly therein. For supporting this separable unit I have shown the cigar tray as having a strip of the metal thereof bent over at- 24, to embrace the upper front edge of the box. Loosely hinged at 18 to the under side of the screen 13 along the upper edge of the same is a flap or door 25 which normally hangs downward along the back of the box. In case, however, the outfit should be overturned the flap 25 will fall against the under side of the screen and blank off the same, preventing the spilling of ashes or refuse on the ioor or table, this position of the flap being shown in Figs. 4 and 5 in the nely dotted lines.

In the bottom of the ash receiver 4 I provide an opening 21 which isnormally closed by the door 2Q, which is secured by the pintle Q2, the spring 22h serving to hold this door in closed position. IVhen it is desired to empty the ash receiver the entire device is held over any convenient recep tacle and by opening the door 22, which opens outwardly, the refuse in the ash receiver will fall out.

At 2G I provide an opening in the front of the box, said opening being into the ash receiver compartment 4. This opening isv normally closed by .a cigar cutter blade 27 which is pivoted to the front wall of the box at QS, and having a notch 29 for the insertion of the cigar tip. By lifting up on the end 30 ofthis blade which extends outwardly through a slot 31 in the end wall of the box the cigar tip may be clipped oii between the sharpened edge 3Q of the blade 27 and a similar sharpened edge 33 on the box. The spring 34 is provided for returning the blade 27 to its normal position, which is the lower position shown in the drawings. The slot 31 is of such length that the blade 27 may be lifted entirely above the hole 26 which then serves to admit cigar or cigarette butts or the like, the blade 27 serving in its normal position to close this opening against the spilling of ashes in case of the overturning of the outfit.

At 35 I have provided an opening in the cigar tray which serves also to admit cigar stumps or the like.

I have thus described how I preferably construct my invention and it will be seen that I have provided a neat substantial and sanitary arrangement for the convenience of smokers.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a smoking set a box having an ash compartment therein, a cigar tray and an ash remover disposed over said ash compartment, said cigar tray being inwardly declined from the front and top of said box andy abutting at its inner end said ash remover near the center of said ash compartment. said ash remover extending from adjacent the inner end of the said cigar tray to the rear and top of said box, the plane of said ash remover being disposed atsubstantially 90o from the plane of said Y cigar tray.

2. In a smoking set a box having an ash compartment therein, a cigar tray and an ash remover disposed over said ash compartment and being loosely attached thereto, said cigar tray being inwardly declined from the front and top of said box and abutting at its inner end said ash remover near the center of said ash compartment, said ash remover extending from adjacent the inner end of the said cigar tray to the rear and top of said box, the plane of said ash remover being disposed at substantially 90 from the plane of said cigar tray.

' 3. In a smoking set, an inwardly declining cigar tray and an inclined ash remover adjacent the inner end of said cigar tray, the inner end of said cigar tray abutting the said ash remover near its lower extremity, a portion of the material of the said cigar tray being cut away near its inner end to form an opening for the passage of ashes.

4. In a smoking set, a box having an ash compartment therein, an ash remover having openings therein disposed over the said ash compartment, and a depending ap hinged under the said ash remover, said iap being adapted to hang normally in an open position with respect to the openings through the said ash remover and being adapted further to fall against the under side of said ash remover and close the openings through tlie same when the said box is overturned.

5. In a smoking set, a box having an ash compartment therein, said ash compartment having a clean-out opening in the bottom thereof, and said opening being adapted to be normally closed by a spring controlled door, all in combination with a cigar tray and an ash remover disposed over said ash compartment, said ash tray being inwardly declined from the front and top of said box and abutting at its inner end said ash remover near the center of said ash compartment, said ash remover extending from adjacent the inner end of the said cigar tray to the rear and top of said box, the

adjacent the inner end of the said cigar tray to the rear and top of said box, the plane of said ash remover being disposed at substantially 90 from the said cigar tray. l5 In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN M. ZWICKLE.

Vitnesses HUBERT M. SPANGLER, R. A. LOVING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. C. 

